Message from @Death Strike's Bat
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That's the problem
you immediately presupose a divnity behind a creative force
As there cannot be good without evil and if he is good there has to be evil.
and above all, make a hierarchal structure in an arbitrary way
And by benevolence, he willed evil into being
and you presuppose that creative force is related to only one power
That's Platonism/neoplatonism
"all of things are matter" this is a pleonasm
Europeans pushed the spirit world beyond their world.
While for primitive peoples, the spirit and the material are interwined.
Wrong on so many levels
It's not wrong.
For all traditional teachings
What is traditional?
This is traditional.
If you don't understand that we cannot have a meaningful conversation
I mean what is "traditionaL'
that which belongs to traditional civilizations
Traditional civilizations actually believed that.
According therefore,to all traditional teachings
Through cognition
Material world was a manifestation, and as such full of symbols which revealed, but not represented higher meanings
CAN STILL BE MONIST HOWEVER
It is not a manifestation.
It is an imitation.
PLATO SAID CAUSE TO EFFECT: IDEA => MATERIAL
Body itself, was, when you deeply contemplate on these teachings, perhaps the most sacred of all
The idea is not material
The soul is not your body
IDEA (CAUSE) => MATERIAL (EFFECT)
THAT HOWEVER
IS A FORM OF MONISM
NOT DUALISM
And the most revered teachings were those that were deeply inner, therefore urelated to mere exoteric, like serving the masses
AND THIS IS WHAT (I THINK) @The Enlightened Shepherd IS TRYING TO DIFFERENTIATE
COULD BE WRONG
NOT SURE
MORE TEA
So why is the goal of most skyfather faiths (and those that imitate them) for you to die?
The body doesn't matter.